Nationality: (California) American Ethnicity: Her parents are Caucasian & African. Bi-racial. She’s 5’7 1/2 with Hazel eyes. http://elitemodel.com/details No Ties Management — Models: mikalah sultan Two Management – Mikalah Sultan With her siblings below
Model: Yaris Cedano
Nationality: Unknown Ethnicity: (Dominican) Latina She speaks Spanish and English. Q&A: Where are you from? The Dominican Republic. What drew you to the fashion industry? My mother has an Arts school, and the etiquette teacher knew a modelling agency. Where does your inspiration come from? I work to make money for my foundation in my […]
Model: Sharam Diniz
Nationality: Portuguese Ethnicity: (Portuguese/Angolan) African. Ms. Diniz was born in Angola and has dual citizenship. She speaks Portuguese and English. Sharam is 5’11. She was the winner of Ford Supermodel Portugal 2009 and also won a contract with L’Agence Models Portugal. Ms. Diniz began to participate in fashion shows in Angola at 17-year-old. https://vimeo.com/98730039 https://youtu.be/RLOEgA5pJHw At the […]
QUEEN NZINGA: The Monarch of Ndongo and Matamba, Angola, Africa
Queen Nzinga of Ndongo and Matamba (1583-1663) was an Angolan Queen. She was the daughter of a King , and was exposed to war and politics at an early age. Queen Nzinga 2 sisters were some of her war-lords and she had women in her army. When the Portuguese built a fort on her land, she led a […]
Model: Pauline Hoarau
Nationality: French Ethnicity: (Reunion Island) Off the coast of South East Africa. She speaks French and English. https://youtu.be/rvTnvDfa-Us https://youtu.be/DiESuM0OMZc (Reunion Island) Off the coast of South East Africa below Réunion Island, a French department in the Indian Ocean, is known for its volcanic, rainforested interior, offshore reefs, beaches and Creole culture. The active Piton de la […]
Satelites Found (2,000 yrs) Ancient African Kingdom in Libya
New satellite images have revealed more than a hundred ancient fortified settlements still standing in the Sahara. The settlements, located in what today is southern Libya, were built by the Garamantes, a people who ruled much of the area for nearly a thousand years until their empire fragmented around 700 AD. Source: Garamantic Ruins above- Credit: […]
Model: Jeneil Williams
Nationality: Unknown Ethnicity: (Kingston, Jamaica) African descent A native of Kingston, Jamaica, her career started after she won third place in the Caribbean Model Search contest in 2005 and signed with New York Models, which led to a campaign for United Colors of Benetton shot by David Sims. Her Benetton campaign sparked interest from Anna […]
Queen Nanny of the Maroons
Queen Nanny of the Maroons (c.1685-1755) was a Jamaican slave born in Ghana. She was captured as a child, and sold into slavery where she worked at a sugar cane plantation, until she and some close friends decided to escape further inland, into an area known as the Blue Mountains. There already existed Marion communities […]
Model: Raquel Pinto
Nationality: Unknown Ethnicity: African Cape Verdean fashion model Raquel Pinto was born in Santo Antão, Cape Verde. She speaks Portuguese and English. Raquel Pinto, 19, a native of St. Anthony, is the new co-worker of famous models like Naomi Campbell, Gisele Bundchen, Cameron Diaz, among other world celebrities. The French modeling agency, Elite Model Raquel […]
Model & Ex-Beauty Queen: Miriam Correia
Nationality: Unknown Ethnicity: African Miss Correia is a Porto Novo native of Cabo-Verdiana, Cape Verde or Cabo Verde, which is off the northwest coast of Africa. She speaks Portuguese and English. Quote: ” I was born in Cape Verde, an archepelego off the coast of Africa, when I was 8 years old my family and I […]
Model: Grace Bol
Nationality: American Ethnicity: South Sudanese, African Sudanese-American beauty Grace Bol moved to New York to pursue modeling after being deemed “too high fashion” by her Kansas City peers, and she hasn’t left since. (In a 2010 interview) The 21-year-old is currently represented by Major Models and recently walked the fall 2011 Givenchy, Maison Martin Margiela and […]
35 New Ancient Pyramids & Graves Discovered (2009-2012) in Sudan, Africa
One overlooked fact is that Sudan has more pyramids than Egypt, in places like Nuri and Bijrawiyah, though they are smaller and not as old. Meroe was often ruled by queens, known by the title “kandake,” and boasts scores of pyramids similar in shape to the one exhibited on a one-dollar bill. “I discovered a […]
Model: Adau Mornyang
Nationality: Australian Ethnicity: South Sudanese, African. She is 5’11 ft tall. Born in South Sudan, She has graced many South African runways, and everytime one sees her strut down the catwalk, you can do nothing but to ask ‘Wow, who is she’? She is Adau Mornyang. South African based model sign to Base Models South […]
Cape Coloureds of South Africa
In Southern Africa, there are 11 official languages spoken currently. The term Coloureds (also known as Bruinmense, Kleurlinge or Bruine Afrikaners in Afrikaans) is an ethnic label for people of mixed ethnic origin who possess ancestry from Europe, Asia, and various Khoisan and Bantu tribes of Southern Africa. Besides the extensive combining of these diverse […]
Miss Bermuda & Model: Lily Lightbourn
Nationality: Bermudian Ethnicity: African descent. She won Miss Bermuda World 2014. Bermudan babe Lily was scouted on the streets of NYC by agents from APM while she was in town to see agencies. Currently working on building her book, when this Caribbean queen isn’t modeling she spends her time writing poetry, painting and reading. Hazel eyes, […]
Model: Valyn Dobson
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Her Mother is Italian & German and Her Father is African American. Valyn Dobson was born in Baltimore Maryland, then soon moved to Everett, Washington, was where she spent most of her childhood and young adult years. Valyn grew up with her grandmother, mother, aunt and younger brother. When Valyn was 12 years […]
World’s largest diamond ever found was in Pretoria, South Africa
A 3,106-carat diamond was discovered during a routine inspection by the mine’s superintendent. Weighing 1.33 pounds, and christened the “Cullinan,” aka “The Star Of Africa” it was the largest diamond ever found. Frederick Wells was 18 feet below the earth’s surface when he spotted a flash of starlight embedded in the wall just above […]
Random Egyptian Inspired Tattoos World Wide
A tattoo is a form of body modification, made by inserting indelible ink into the dermis layer of the skin to change the pigment. The word tattoo, or tattow in the 18th century, is a loanword from the Polynesian word tatau, meaning “correct, workmanlike”. The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of tattoo as “In 18th century,tattaow, […]
Only a man would have thought to look from behind
No comment. Torso of Queen Nefertiti at British Museum shop online Torso of Queen Nefertiti | Boutiques de Musées http://www.louvre.fr/en
Warrior Queens of Nubia/Kush/Meroe
Amanirenas (also spelled Amanirena) was a queen of the Meroitic Kingdom of Kush. The Romans themselves were intrigued by Aminarenas, whom one source described as “a masculine sort of woman, blind in one eye.” Too Much like the Amazons of myth, she was a warrior queen who commanded her own soldiers in battle, something which […]
Al-Kahina Berber Queen of Numidia/Algeria, Africa
Al-Kahina (c.654- c.702) was a Berber queen of the region then known as Numidia, in modern day Algeria. She became the war leader of the Berber tribes in the 680s, and faced off the Islamic armies in their conquest of north Africa. The Arabs, led by Hasan Ibn al-Nu’man marched from Egypt and defeated the […]
Jewels of Ancient Nubia
The essays found within Jewels of Ancient Nubia explore the breadth of ancient of Nubian civilization — from the distant prehistoric past (c. 3500 BCE) to the collapse of the Kingdom of Meroë (c. 350 CE) — with special focus given to artistic development. Among the essays, we found “The Kingdom of Kerma” to be […]
Queen Tin Hinan Of The Tuareg People
Tin Hinan is the name given by the Tuareg to a 4th-century woman of prestige whose monumental tomb is located in the Sahara at Abalessa in the Hoggar region of Algeria. The legendary Queen of the Tuareg people, the matrilineal desert-dwelling Berbers who are famous for their blue clothing—and for the fact that it’s their […]
Estimated 15,000 Pre-historic rock art paintings from Tassili, Sahara Desert of North Africa
Tassili n’Ajjer is a vast plateau in south-east Algeria at the borders of Libya, Niger and Mali, covering an area of 72,000 sq. km. The exceptional density of paintings and engravings, and the presence of many prehistoric vestiges, are remarkable testimonies to Prehistory. From 10,000 BC to the first centuries of our era, successive peoples left […]
My Love For Ponytails
Sometimes things like hair color and highlights makes your ponytail stand out from others. Side swept ponytails Take it to the next level and add flowers, gold and other sparkly accessories.
Model: Mearg Tareke
Nationality: American Ethnicity: Ethiopian, African Mearg Tareke speaks 3 languages. Ethiopian born model based in America. Although she has been modelling for a short time, Mearg Tareke is a woman you simply can’t ignore and will definitely be the next generation of Supermodels out of Africa. She has the right mentally, the look, the stride, […]
7 Emperor’s Castles In Gondar, Ethiopia, Africa
I bet you didn’t know we have castles in Africa too! Unfortunately this wasn’t considered important enough to put in our standard beginners history books, but guess what !? Better late then never right? 🙂 Don’t believe me? You can find it on Google Earth! Click on the World Heritage site below. Gondar or Gonder […]
Ark of the Covenant was given to Ethiopians?
The Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion is the most important church in Ethiopia, and claims to contain the Ark of the Covenant. It is located in the town of Axum in the Tigray Province. The original church is believed to have been built during the reign of Ezana, the first Christian emperor of […]
Aksum the ancient city with tombs & the largest megalithic obelisks in Ethiopia, Africa
The enormous obelisks in Aksum, Ethiopia are much bigger than the famous obelisks in Egypt. The city of Aksum emerged several centuries before the birth of Christ, as the capital of a state that traded with ancient Greece, Egypt and Asia. With its fleets sailing as far afield as Ceylon, Aksum later became the most […]
Lalibela and its 12th-13th century rock-cut Christian churches in Ethiopia, Africa
The Church of St. George is one of eleven monolithic churches in Lalibela, a city in the Amhara Region of Ethiopia. Originally named Roha or Warwar, this historical and religious site is currently accepted in the modern name of Lalibela, after King Gebre Mesqel Lalibela of Ethiopia, who is regarded as a saint-like figure by […]